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On our site, 100 sq m is a "full" plot & we're lucky enough to have 111 sq m! Quite diddy really, but enough for now.Angie - GC April 24 £432.06/£480: 2024 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 10/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0
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Granny pop out of bed? LOL not heard that one but I like it!0
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Thinking of my gardening grandmothers, I shudder - that Could Not Be less appropriate.
One gardened (as far as I could see), by supervising the gardener (I may well be doing her memory a massive injustice).
The other spent time every day writing letters, praying & gardening. (In not wholly equal proportions but some of each daily, regardless of the weather, was mandatory.) From the time on her knees, fighting the devil that was bindweed, I'm not wholly convinced her gardening was *that* different from her prayer, though I think the audible words might have been slightly different.
She's the granny I remember when trying to rescue young peas from bindweed & why I fiercely resist letting rip with a rotavator until I've done enough work with weed suppressant fabric & targeted chemicals. (Another 2 years or until someone looses all patience & overrides my caution, is my guess.)
Have a wonderful time with your extended queendom, GQ!0 -
I've googled bindweed and I haven't seen that here. Not complaining though. My main moan is chickweed - was ok when I had chickens to eat it but now it's a pest.0
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“Historically allotment is traditionally measured in rods (perches or poles), an old measurement dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. 10 poles is the accepted size of an allotment, the equivalent of 250 square metres or about the size of a doubles tennis court.”
Which is exactly the size of ours
Its huge. The council are splitting them now and you can only rent half of one, but established tenants can keep their full plots. We have 2 full plots and a half sized plot where we keep the bees. We’re down to 8 colonies is year and slowly winding down further. Our daughter has more or less taken over the second plot now as well. They supply all our soft fruit, veg, apples and honey. We used to keep chickens as well but aren’t able to manage them any more.
GQ - happy extra plotting:) We got our plots in 1978 and there were only 8 at that time being cultivated on an 90+ site. It will be our 40th anniversary this year and we’ve enjoyed every allotment year of it.0 -
Arghhhhhh bindweed! Every tiny, tiny piece of root has the potential to become a forestI was jumping to conclusions and one of them jumped back0
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And the only three tools against it are flintheartedness, glyphosate and routine burning of every remaining particle.
That I know of. Whereas Himself yearns over a rotavator...0 -
my plot is comparatively diddy, only 10 x 100 feet and that includes the shed/composting/storage end. Actual workable width is 8 feet but I grow a vast amount of produce. It is a good size for me, half is divided into 8 x 4 raised beds. I have bindweed but am persistent in getting it out, couch grass is a real pain but I would not like marestail, the nasty that GQ has. Half is cost effective and easy fruit, some space given to flowers, roses, alstreomeria, hellibores, echinacea etc It gets me out and feeds me well. I plan it for every year, the fertilising, the rotations. I don`t have any growing house up there
This allotment is why I am working on getting the spring clean done, the allotment takes over soon, all that weeding, sowing seeds, fresh air etc
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Quite satisfying pulling the roots out though. Or maybe I'm strange, I love stripping wallpaper too, which has little to do with allotments well nothing at all really.DigForVictory wrote: »And the only three tools against it are flintheartedness, glyphosate and routine burning of every remaining particle.
That I know of. Whereas Himself yearns over a rotavator...I was jumping to conclusions and one of them jumped back0
Nah, what would I do with that amount of veggies?!This discussion has been closed.
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